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It applies the integration to psychiatric nursing assessment and intervention.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Nursing has not integrated autobiographical memory science into practice, assessment, or theoretical frameworks despite a robust evidence base. Therapeutic communication employs the same conversational behaviors that developmental research identifies as the mechanisms of memory scaffolding. Without a framework to distinguish clinically meaningful from culturally normative memory, the relationally oriented, temporally general narratives common among patients from collectivist backgrounds may be misread as pathology during psychiatric assessment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Understanding therapeutic communication as autobiographical memory scaffolding enables psychiatric nurses to assess memory specificity as a transdiagnostic clinical marker, recognize culturally shaped recall as distinct from pathology, and intervene more deliberately to support narrative construction that is clinically functional and culturally congruent. A clinical vignette illustrates these implications. 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